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Richard Osman

March 2026

  • A man in a red hoodie holding the book

    Thousands of authors publish ‘empty’ book in protest over AI using their work

    About 10,000 writers including Kazuo Ishiguro, Philippa Gregory and Richard Osman join copyright campaign

January 2026

  • Alexis Bledel and Lauren Graham walk down a sunny street with parasols in Gilmore Girls

    ‘I have rewatched the show more than 60 times’: your favourite comfort TV

  • Leah Williamson

    Leah Williamson and Richard Osman back National Year of Reading

December 2025

  • Richard Osman

    Richard Osman’s The Impossible Fortune tops 2025 UK bestsellers list

    Fantasy, mystery and psychological thriller series dominate book sales, as adult colouring also makes a comeback

September 2025

  • Mick Herron and Gary Oldman

    Slow Horses author Mick Herron says he knows how Jackson Lamb dies

    The writer knows ‘how, why, when and where’ Gary Oldman’s cantankerous intelligence officer meets his end – a fate he figured out ‘relatively recently’
  • William Boyd.

    Crime and thrillers roundup
    The best recent crime and thrillers – review roundup

    The Predicament by William Boyd; The Killer Question by Janice Hallett; The Impossible Fortune by Richard Osman; 59 Minutes by Holly Seddon; Deadman’s Pool by Kate Rhodes
  • Head and shoulders shot of Richard Osman (left) and Mick Herron.

    Post your questions for Richard Osman and Mick Herron

    The bestselling authors of The Thursday Murder Club and the Slough House series will take on your questions

August 2025

  • Pierce Brosnan somewhere in Camden, no info available.

    ‘Pink Floyd were my landscape. I was a hippy’: Pierce Brosnan revisits his old London haunts

  • Celia Imrie, Ben Kingsley, Helen Mirren and Pierce Brosnan in the film The Thursday Murder Club.

    Peter Bradshaw's film of the week
    The Thursday Murder Club review – Richard Osman bestseller provides solid, star-stuffed entertainment

July 2025

  • Bob Mortimer, Alison Hammond, and Big Zuu

    ‘A sheer delight to watch’: the 20 most lovable people on British television

    From TV’s most infectious laugh to presenters so joyous they make the world a better place, here are the most adorable presences to grace the UK’s screens

June 2025

  • The defence secretary, John Healey, inspects a Storm Shadow missile at the MBDA factory in Stevenage, Hertfordshire, on 31 May 2025.

    Brief letters
    Climate crisis is more worrying than Putin

    Brief letters: Defence spending | Male authors | Time flies | Not very special | Colon advice

April 2025

  • Keira Knightley in Atonement.

    Mining of authors’ work is nothing new – AI is just doing what creative humans do

  • Mark Zuckerberg presents Meta AI with Voice in 2024.

    ‘Meta has stolen books’: authors to protest in London against AI trained using ‘shadow library’

March 2025

  • Val McDermid, Kazuo Ishiguro and Richard Osman.

    Authors call for UK government to hold Meta accountable for copyright infringement

  • Richard Osman.

    Richard Osman urges writers to ‘have a good go’ at Meta over breaches of copyright

January 2025

  • Richard Osman and Kate Mosse.

    British novelists criticise government over AI ‘theft’

    Richard Osman and Kate Mosse say plan to mine artistic works for data would destroy creative fields

September 2024

  • Richard Osman

    Crime and thrillers roundup
    The best recent crime and thrillers – review roundup

    We Solve Murders by Richard Osman; Guide Me Home by Attica Locke; Five By Five by Claire Wilson; The Night of Baba Yaga by Akira Otani; I Died at Fallow Hall by Bonnie Burke-Patel
  • Lee Child and Richard Osman.

    ‘I wanted to write a suburban Reacher’: Richard Osman talks to Lee Child about class, success and the secret to great crime writing

    The two hugely successful authors who both started in TV discuss writing as a second career, natural justice – and what they really think of literary fiction
  • Richard Osman Photographer: Jay Brooks Assistant: Caz Dyer Set Design: Sandy Suffield Assistant: Lucas Aliaga-Hurt Grooming: Pauline Simmons

    We Solve Murders by Richard Osman review – his new crime-fighting team is another winner

    A private security officer and the famous novelist in her charge are pursued around the world by a killer in the delightful first book in Osman’s new series

July 2024

  • ‘We need a cultural economy that can sustain a career in the arts’ … Bayadère: The Ninth Life by Shobana Jeyasingh.

    ‘The arts stop us killing each other’: stars tell Labour how to rescue Britain’s downtrodden culture

    Steve McQueen, Tracey Emin, Steve Coogan, Adjoa Andoh, Danny Dyer, Jesse Darling and many more spell out what must be done to restore Britain’s cultural lifeblood, from ending elitism to supercharging libraries – and flooding schools with music
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